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This is part of a 3-part series covering some of my favorite apps for 2012. Yesterday I posted about some of my favorite Mac apps this year . This post is dedicated to apps available on both Mac and

As you may know, I store a lot of information in plain text files. Among the things I enjoy about this has always been that I can grab the contents of any file straight to the clipboard — without

Update: It turns out it’s not my custom keybinding that made this work. Apparently it was already there and just happened to be bound to the same key I was experimenting with. You don’t need to do

Fletcher Penney recently released MultiMarkdown Composer 2 on the Mac App Store. It’s a cleaned-up, smoothed-out, feature-packed version of the previous incarnation. I’m loving it.

I’d been meaning to write a script to do this for a while, and a post by Dr. Drang inspired me to whip it up. Dr. Drang’s is a TextExpander snippet (which also works fine in shell if you use “quoted

Let me start this by saying that I’m fully aware that there are multiple ways to accomplish this feat, and that my choice may not have been the perfect one. It happens to work around some

I’m among the many who are discontent with the latest version of Skitch . I’ve reverted back to the previous version and have been using it happily, but there’s a new alternative.

I find SearchLink to be one of my most useful Services to date. I don’t even use the Auto-Link command from the Markdown Service Tools anymore. In case you haven’t seen it yet, it allows you to

The Soulmen have just posted Ulysses III to the Mac App Store. It brings Daedalus-style document management (similar to Scrivener ) to a Markdown (and Textile) editor that’s pretty special.

I hadn’t seen it happen for a long time, but it struck me today. Blurry icons in Finder and Launchpad. Not all of them, just a few. Some App Store apps, some non, with no obvious rhyme or reason to

I received a request to make the Natural Language Date Service work with formats like “+3 5pm” to create a date in 3 days at 5pm. Previously you couldn’t add a time to a “+x” format.

I’ve been playing with a cool little application called Dash for a while now. It’s a hotkey-based popup with configurable docsets for most major programming languages, including HTML, CSS (plus Less

I’ve mentioned EventScripts before, but I’m finding it awesome enough lately to mention again. I use it in tandem with BetterTouchTool , but for different purposes.

I stumbled upon a BetterTouchTool setting that filled me with glee today. It probably should have been obvious to me earlier, but I hadn’t tried right clicking a gesture in the table view. When you

When SliceReader first appeared, I was instantly intrigued. It’s a simple app which “slices” an article, pasted text or text file into pages and display them, one paragraph per page. It’s designed to

Regular Expressions , often called “regex,” are one of the most powerful tools in any programming language’s toolbox, at least when it comes to string handling. They can be a challenge to build and

I recently wrote a review of the Mac app SliceReader . The developer, Mutahhir Ali Hayat, was kind enough to offer you all five free copies ($2.99 US value). Use the form at the end of the post to

So, what are normal people doing tonight?

The Giveaway Robot (he needs a better name 1 ) has named the lucky winners in the SliceReader giveaway. He claims to have notified them all with a stunning email he generated himself and sent through

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Briefly is a fun little Mac app for combining piles of photos into a fast-paced video. You simply drag a stack of photos from any other application or folder onto the main window, and it will compile

It seems like only yesterday I was giving away copies of Briefly. Next thing I know, I’m sitting here with five codes for Oyster, the regular expression testing app I reviewed a little while ago .

Winners are picked at random by the Giveaway Robot. If you didn’t receive an email with a code/link, please let me know! If you missed out, Oyster is an awesome Regular Expression builder/tester for

I’m continuing a streak of giveaways for some great apps. myPhoneDesktop has been among my favorite programs for a while now . You run it on your iPhone and/or iPad and use a desktop application to

In no particular order, here are the randomly-chosen winners of the 2x myPhoneDesktop giveaway. Each winner receives two promo codes:

The next version of OS X ( Mavericks ) is going to have file tagging capabilities built directly into Finder (as well as save dialogs and iCloud browsers). In fact, it works in the same way as

First off, welcome to the giveaways, most of Canada. I’m still excluding Quebec for inane legal reasons, but everyone else is welcome to enter!

Pete and David only get the first half of the code and they have to guess the rest. That’s what you get for only giving me the first half of your name.

To top off the recent rash of software giveaways 1 , I have five copies of Chatology ($19.99 US value)! It’s a Mac app that brings instant search to Messages, so you can quickly locate any chat you’